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you are stuck with a choice of karzai or the taliban, and my understanding is karzai is not encouraged, so perhaps you will have political parties that the merged -- dodi merge the represent an alternative. -- that the merged -- emerge that represent the alternative. i think the most important thing we can deliver is security, and let me give you one benchmark. the route was the most dangerous in the world for three years. you were likely to be killed if you drove down it, and the fact that it was the most dangerous in the world said everything he needed to know. i have taken the road many times it went down to about seven hours. i could drive the road without incident. anybody would say you were effectively signing your own death warrant. it would be great if it were returned to a road that could really be used, and that as a sign of real progress. that road connecting the pashtun capital to the national capital, and that is something we can deliver. >> do you mind if i asked a question. how would you describe vital interest in the afghanistan in response to what he was arguing? >> th
you are stuck with a choice of karzai or the taliban, and my understanding is karzai is not encouraged, so perhaps you will have political parties that the merged -- dodi merge the represent an alternative. -- that the merged -- emerge that represent the alternative. i think the most important thing we can deliver is security, and let me give you one benchmark. the route was the most dangerous in the world for three years. you were likely to be killed if you drove down it, and the fact that it...
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so hamid karzai maybe corrupt or he may be a saint. it's not our association with him, telling his legitimacy in the eyes of the people, just as in pakistan. he was elected by the majority. he is now 19% approval rating. it is because of his allowing the tax. are we not going to let their institutions, their leadership, maybe we have to talk with mullah omar? >> does anyone want to take that? >> i speak to it for a second in pakistan. you're absolutely right. president's popularity, not anything to do with mr. 10% himself has gone through the roof. you will probably see the end of the zardari government. each time we have ended up pretty unhappy with the outcome. and the pakistani people have ended up pretty unhappy with the outcome. we've talked a lot about polling. and i'm skeptical about polling in illiterate societies as i think anyone is. but there is interesting polling in pakistan that says despite the fact that the country now has an anemic economy, despite the fact that the violence is unprecedented levels, the overwhelming ma
so hamid karzai maybe corrupt or he may be a saint. it's not our association with him, telling his legitimacy in the eyes of the people, just as in pakistan. he was elected by the majority. he is now 19% approval rating. it is because of his allowing the tax. are we not going to let their institutions, their leadership, maybe we have to talk with mullah omar? >> does anyone want to take that? >> i speak to it for a second in pakistan. you're absolutely right. president's popularity,...
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having said that, hamid karzai is the legitimately-elected president of the country, and we will deal with him and his government which has plenty of good people in it -- i should be careful about that because not all his cabinet members have been confirmed yet, but there's some excellent ministers who were -- we're very comfortable working with. and we are well aware of the fact that this election wasn't perfect, and we work closely with ndi and iri and the european union observers, and i hope future elections will be, will be better. but this was the first really contested election in the country. there had been one five years ago, but not like this. and under most difficult circumstances. secretary clinton said publicly during her trip that it was astonishing that they attempted it at all. but we will work with the karzai government as legitimate government, and we look forward to continuing that, and we look forward to improvements in the relationship. >> yes, sir. >> thank you. mr. ambassador, happy new year. i know you have very difficult job, you cannot make everybody happy in
having said that, hamid karzai is the legitimately-elected president of the country, and we will deal with him and his government which has plenty of good people in it -- i should be careful about that because not all his cabinet members have been confirmed yet, but there's some excellent ministers who were -- we're very comfortable working with. and we are well aware of the fact that this election wasn't perfect, and we work closely with ndi and iri and the european union observers, and i hope...
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karzai lacks legitimacy, and he's unpopular in this country. so this really will depend on achieving security, which i think is achievable, good governance, which is a big question mark, and of course, with good governance comes, you know, with our own money investment for jobs, jobs, jobs. without jobs, jobs, jobs afghanistan will not be a positive scenario in the future. but saying that, i must conclude by pointing out that this is not going to affect our domestic national security. as we see with the last three plots the underwear bomber came from yemen -- well, was helped in yemen. came from nigeria and london. the attack on the danish cartoonist came from somalia. and major hasan came from washington, d.c. thank you very much. [applauding] [inaudible conversations] >> peter has to leave at 11:00, so he should take the first few questions. there is a microphone in the back of the room for anyone who would like to ask a question. [inaudible conversations] >> my name is mustafa malik. i work some 30 years as a journalist in the united states.
karzai lacks legitimacy, and he's unpopular in this country. so this really will depend on achieving security, which i think is achievable, good governance, which is a big question mark, and of course, with good governance comes, you know, with our own money investment for jobs, jobs, jobs. without jobs, jobs, jobs afghanistan will not be a positive scenario in the future. but saying that, i must conclude by pointing out that this is not going to affect our domestic national security. as we see...
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it was certainly -- as we went to the conflicts or the debate about fried and abdulla purses karzai --is will this take on an ethnic tone. there were rumors that some are unhappy and are preparing to protest and did things to not go their way with their candidates and so on -- i do not know how realistic those are. in the end, there was not any major incident. i did not feel being there that there was any point that was about to go off our was narrowly averted. mike and digital compression is that -- my anecdotal impression is that they are not ethnic divisions that came out of the public debate. i think it is a very positive sign. in terms of political management, it is minimal in terms of the ecc's operation. there is tremendous support and the international community in terms of our profits and the decisions. we throughout were processed base. following our procedures and applying equal criteria to all complaint was our number one goal. i think that the acceptance of our findings closely reflect that people did recognize we were acting according to the law and according to procedur
it was certainly -- as we went to the conflicts or the debate about fried and abdulla purses karzai --is will this take on an ethnic tone. there were rumors that some are unhappy and are preparing to protest and did things to not go their way with their candidates and so on -- i do not know how realistic those are. in the end, there was not any major incident. i did not feel being there that there was any point that was about to go off our was narrowly averted. mike and digital compression is...
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they talk about their fraud investigation and eventual victory by hamid karzai. they discuss the presidential elections for this may. it was held at the u.s. institute of peace in washington, d.c. >> good morning, everyone. we can proceed. thank everyone for coming. my name is john dempsey with the u.s. institute of peace, based in afghanistan. i have the privilege of actually being here in washington this week for this, our first public event on afghanistan of 2010. i'm so happy we have such a good turnout, i recognize some faces here, see a lot of people i haven't seen around before and i look forward to a frank discussion with our distinguished panelist today on a subject that clearly has been getting a lot of attention over the last year, given what we saw in the difficult election season in afghanistan last year but that also has not yet gone away. i think once we got through the difficult process of the elections last year, people were breathing a collective sigh of relief that we moved on and could actually get on with governance and moving toward with str
they talk about their fraud investigation and eventual victory by hamid karzai. they discuss the presidential elections for this may. it was held at the u.s. institute of peace in washington, d.c. >> good morning, everyone. we can proceed. thank everyone for coming. my name is john dempsey with the u.s. institute of peace, based in afghanistan. i have the privilege of actually being here in washington this week for this, our first public event on afghanistan of 2010. i'm so happy we have...